Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1887-09-02
ooRGASIzED HYPocRIs y
Our erratic contemporary under

"ORGANIzED HYPocRIs q,
Our erratic contemporary under !
axes to challenge the term Organ 81
zed Hypocrisy" as applied by The d
REVIEW 10 the republican party and
llso to deny the allegation We made d
bat for the twenty four years of tepub, C
lean rule, democrats were excluded
rom all offices of honor and profit Y
yithin the glft of the federal admins t
ration. This latter fast is SO univer- /
SALLY known that we are astounded at t
my one trying to contradict it. 50 {
was this exclusion CT demo [
crats, that the Judiciary which above !
all should be free from partisan con- {
troll, was organized exclusively in the
interest of the republican party, and
every judicial position filled with
republican. Not however content with
this debasement of the judiciary to
partisan ends, an effort was made even
to control the army, and no less re
publican chieftian than Gen. Garfield
introduced into congress bill to re-
duce the number of Major Generals,
an attempt but lily concealed to pun
ish the illustrious Hancock for the
atrocious crime of being an adherent
of the party of Jefferson, Jackson and
the constitution. Could anything
more be said of the depraved state OF
affairs?
But it is not simply that the public
service was thus debauched, that pat
ronage was dealt out to senators, who
thus became bosses of gigantic politi.
cal machine having for its object the
perpetual control Of the government
by the republican party, that we call
attention to these facts. The hypoc-
crisy in denying these things which are
known to he true is the greater ottense.
I4l,. lepuu4lu,la F~Ty 80" e.y
hing in sight, shere never was such
horde of hungry ofice-seekers in the
world as for twcnty-four years set
round the festive board and deVoured
the spoils, and it requires derrick to
get some Of them away from the table
now! Corruption abounded, bosslsm
grew rank, the unwritten law against
a third term was sought to be set at
defiance partisan quarrel over spoils
inspired Guiteau to murder presl-
dent, the Belknaps and Dellanos es
capped the penitentiary, the Shermans
and Blainos became millionaires by
office holding at $4,000 per year! The
Summers, Greeleys, Adams, Trumbulls
Curtins, Julians and Palmers, honest
patriotic men all, deserted the party
their brains had organized, and the
country was given over to reign oi
corruption, of whiskey rings, of Credit
Mobilier infamy, navy jobberies, politl
cal assessments of office holders, ant
crime eliminating in the very thief
of the presidency itself!
Vet we are told that this organiza
ton which grew so rank in corruption
that its founders deserted it, is the Coz
and morality party. That it is tn
party Of pure methods and honest pun
pose. There is no term to describe II
save the one we have adopted Q
"Organized Hypocrisy"
We will pursue this subject a httl
further. To-day the republican part
is CRYING itself hoarse over st. job
and the prohibition party; even ou
contemporary going SO far as to say tha
St John must not come to Oregon /
the interest of the amendment: Coul
narrow-minded, contracted bigotry 6
furtherl This organization that fc
twenty four years controlled the GO
ernment in all departments, all th'
time making its hypocritical claim
being a temperance party, NOR
party, prohibition, party, did nothir
for the advancement of this grei
moral cause, but under its regime, Il
liquor interest thrived and grew, ou
stripping all other industries in /
magnitude. And to-day, with OF
breath it abnses the prohibition S
f-9r risk~ arrt We hat
l,n-vI 49, = ca, .4..so e.voo...-,' -, a
at the same time the Oregonio
and Statesman, the two leading repu
lican journals in the state are fghtir
the amendment with all their pow
und with unwonted vigor, and Gle
Applegate, an acknowledged repuh
can leader has taken the stump in t
whisky interest Hypocrisy, ver
Organized Hypocrisy
Is it necessary to say more to 81
tain the charge? If so, take up
case of the poor colorcd man, for whC
every hypocritical republican he
truly bleeds, at the same time tt
the Freodman's bureau "bled"
pocket for the enrichment of repul
can rogues, the rejection by the rep
lican senate of Matthews to an imp
tant office because of his color; and